11-letter words containing e, t, o, u
- mensuration — the branch of geometry that deals with the measurement of length, area, or volume.
- menthaceous — belonging to the Menthaceae, a former name for the plant family Labiatae.
- meritorious — deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy: to receive a gift for meritorious service.
- merry mount — a settlement in Mt. Wollaston (Quincy), Mass., c1625–28, noted for its rejection of Puritan standards of behavior.
- mesothelium — epithelium of mesodermal origin, which lines the body cavities.
- mesothorium — one of two radioactive decay products of thorium, an isotope of radium or actinium.
- metasequoia — a tall deciduous coniferous tree, Metasequoia glyptostrobodes, first known as a fossil and then discovered alive in China.
- metrosexual — a heterosexual, usually urban male who pays much attention to his personal appearance and cultivates an upscale lifestyle.
- microtubule — a hollow cylindrical structure in the cytoplasm of most cells, involved in intracellular shape and transport.
- milquetoast — a very timid, unassertive, spineless person, especially one who is easily dominated or intimidated: a milquetoast who's afraid to ask for a raise.
- minute book — a book in which the minutes of a meeting are recorded
- misconstrue — to misunderstand the meaning of; take in a wrong sense; misinterpret.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- mobile unit — a vehicle supplied with the basic equipment or materials necessary for a particular purpose, as for televising on location or being used as an x-ray or inoculation clinic.
- mobuto lake — Lake Albert.
- moisturiser — (British) alternative spelling of moisturizer.
- moisturized — Simple past tense and past participle of moisturize.
- moisturizer — a cosmetic preparation, as a cream or lotion, used to restore moisture to the skin, especially of the face and neck.
- moisturizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of moisturize.
- mole-hunter — a person who hunts for moles
- momentously — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
- monchiquite — a type of rock made up of large crystals of, among other constituents, olivine and amphibole and which is found in an analcite groundmass
- monkey suit — a tuxedo or full-dress suit.
- monoculture — the use of land for growing only one type of crop.
- monoestrous — monestrous.
- montelukast — a type of oral drug containing a leukotriene inhibitor, used in the treatment of asthma and seasonal allergies.
- montesquieu — (Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu) 1689–1755, French philosophical writer.
- monticulate — having low rising mounds or protrusions
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- mossbluiter — the bittern
- most-centum — belonging to or consisting of those branches of the Indo-European family of languages that show distinctive preservation of the Proto-Indo-European labiovelars and that show a historical development of velar articulations, as the sounds (k) or [kh] /x/ (Show IPA) from Proto-Indo-European palatal phonemes. The centum branches are Germanic, Celtic, Italic, Hellenic, Anatolian, and Tocharian.
- most-lupine — pertaining to or resembling the wolf.
- motherhouse — The monastery from which the other 'houses' of a religious order or congregation were (directly or indirectly) founded, often eponymous.
- motoneurons — Plural form of motoneuron.
- motorneuron — Alternative spelling of motor neuron.
- mount elgon — an extinct volcano in E Africa, on the Kenya-Uganda border. Height: 4321m (14 178 ft)
- mount kenya — an extinct volcano in central Kenya: the second highest mountain in Africa; girth at 2400 m (8000 ft) is about 150 km (95 miles). The regions above 3200 m (10 500 ft) constitute Mount Kenya National Park. Height: 5199 m (17 058 ft)
- mount pearl — a town in Newfoundland, in E Canada, on the SE part of the island, S of St. John's.
- mount pelée — a volcano in the Caribbean, in N Martinique: erupted in 1902, killing every person but one in the town of Saint-Pierre. Height: 1463 m (4800 ft)
- mount siple — a mountain in Antarctica, on the coast of Byrd Land. Height: 3100 m (10 171 ft)
- mountaineer — A person who takes part in mountaineering.
- mountbatten — Louis (Francis Albert Victor Nicholas), 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma 1900–79, British naval commander; great-grandson of Queen Victoria. During World War II he was supreme allied commander in SE Asia (1943–46). He was the last viceroy of India (1947) and governor general (1947–48); killed by an IRA bomb
- mountebanks — Plural form of mountebank.
- mountenance — a quantity, amount, duration, or value
- mouth ulcer — oral sore
- mouthpieces — Plural form of mouthpiece.
- mu-neutrino — muon-neutrino.
- mucopeptide — Peptidoglycan.
- mucoprotein — a protein that yields carbohydrates as well as amino acids on hydrolysis.